Guru Investment Theses on Sanofi

Bill Nygren Comments on Sanofi - Apr 08, 2014

Sanofi (SNY - $52)(SNY)Sanofi is a pharmaceutical company with a good mix of durable businesses with strong growth characteristics. The company has a strong franchise in diabetes treatments, maintaining dominant market share in this rapidly growing category. Sanofi is a leading player in emerging markets, where sales growth rates are twice that of the overall pharmaceutical market. Sanofi is also a leader in vaccines, and they have a strong footprint in over-the-counter products. We think that margins and profitability should improve as the company leverages fixed R&D spending and enforces good cost controls. The company’s balance sheet has more cash than debt, and the shares sell at a substantial discount to our estimate of intrinsic value. Moreover, Sanofi has a dividend yield of 3.7%.

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Sanofi (SNY - $52)(SNY)Sanofi is a pharmaceutical company with a good mix of durable businesses with strong growth characteristics. The company has a strong franchise in diabetes treatments, maintaining dominant market share in this rapidly growing category. Sanofi is a leading player in emerging markets, where sales growth rates are twice that of the overall pharmaceutical market. Sanofi is also a leader in vaccines, and they have a strong footprint in over-the-counter products. We think that margins and profitability should improve as the company leverages fixed R&D spending and enforces good cost controls. The company’s balance sheet has more cash than debt, and the shares sell at a substantial discount to our estimate of intrinsic value. Moreover, Sanofi has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Read more...

Sanofi was incorporated under the laws of France in 1994 as a société anonyme, a form of limited liability company. It is a healthcare company, engaged in the research, development, manufacture and marketing of healthcare products. Its principal activities include Pharmaceuticals, Human Vaccines via Sanofi Pasteur, and Animal Health via Merial. It also operates through the following platforms: Emerging Markets, Diabetes Solutions, Vaccines, Consumer Health Care (CHC), Animal Health, Genzyme, and Other Innovative Products. The Pharmaceuticals segment covers research, development, production and marketing of medicines, including activities acquired with Genzyme. Sanofi's pharmaceuticals portfolio consists of flagship products, plus prescription medicines, generic medicines, and consumer health products. This segment also includes all associates and joint ventures whose activities are related to pharmaceuticals, in particular the entities majority owned by BMS. The Vaccines segment is wholly dedicated to vaccines, including research, development, production and marketing. This segment includes Sanofi Pasteur MSD joint venture with Merck & Co., Inc. in Europe. The Animal Health segment comprises the research, development, production and marketing activities of Merial, which offers medicines and vaccines for a wide variety of animal species. Its competitors include Novo Nordisk, Merck, Eli Lilly, Bristol-Myers Squibb, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis, Shire, Pfizer, Biogen Idec, Teva and Merck Serono, Bayer, Roche, Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Fresenius Medical Care, among others. The Company's products and manufacturing facilities are subject to significant government regulations and approvals.

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